Timeline for Why are backboards no longer used as spinal immobilization devices?
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| Jun 15, 2022 at 0:42 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Mar 22, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | Carey Gregory♦ | EMS protocols are almost always local policy decisions, although quite often "local" means at the state level. There are no national EMS protocols in the US. That said, the death of the backboard is long overdue and has been in the discussion phase since the 1990s. There is no evidence showing they are helpful and significant evidence showing they are harmful. | |
| Mar 22, 2016 at 15:08 | history | answered | Kevin Flynn | CC BY-SA 3.0 |